Shane Coughlan

This Monday at 9am Pacific (Monday midnight Beijing/Taipei, 1am Seoul/Tokyo) we will hold our seventh webinar. We will cover two strategic topics. VM (Vicky) Brasseur will open with a discussion on Lessons Learned over her wide-ranging career in open source and business. Katy Gibson and Robert Grannells will then discuss how an initiative in the UK is fostering Future Leaders in our field, a timely topic given recent observations by parties like Linus regarding the challenge of finding new blood to take over old projects.

This is part of the bi-weekly OpenChain Webinar series. Every two weeks we have international speakers covering a wide range of topics related to practical open source compliance challenges, solutions and considerations.

You can learn more about this series here: 
https://www.openchainproject.org/webinars-interviews

Learn More About Our Speakers

VM (Vicky) Brasseur corporate strategist, open source & technical leader, author, speaker Resume Book About Publications Presentations

VM (Vicky) Brasseur is an award-winning free/open source advocate and corporate strategist, international keynote speaker, and writer. She’s the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the only book detailing how to contribute to free/open source (FOSS) projects. Aside from articles in various publications, she also writes about FOSS, business, and their intersection on her blog.

Katy Gibson – Associate Commercial IP/IT Solicitor – Bristows LLP – Co-chair of the OpenUK Future Leaders Group

Katy is an Associate in the Commercial IP/IT Team at Bristows LLP and advises on a variety of matters involving data protection, IT and intellectual property for clients in a range of industries, including those within the Life Sciences and TMT sectors. She trained at Bristows and qualified in 2018.

Robert Grannells – Associate Technology Solicitor – Fieldfisher LLP – Co-chair of the OpenUK Future Leaders Group

Robert is a technology lawyer experienced in advising a variety of clients of all sectors and sizes, on a variety of issues across software, hardware, infrastructure, networking, open source and web technologies. He has extensive knowledge of the actual technology underpinning what his clients do, want they want to use and how they need it to work to get business done.

Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK

Amanda is CEO of the UK body for “open technology being open source software, open hardware and open data”, OpenUK; the Chair of the Open Source and Intellectual Property (IP) Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs;  European Representative of the world’s biggest defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network;  OASIS Open Projects’ Advisory Council Member(open source and open standards); Advisory Board Member KDE; Advisory Board Member Beamery and Mentors C Suite individuals. 

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credativ, a leading open source support and services provider, announces OpenChain 2.0 conformance. credativ was an early adopter of the industry standard for open source compliance, and the adoption of 2.0 further demonstrates their commitment to continual improvement across all aspects of their business.

“Nowadays most businesses benefit from open source software or even employ it in their business critical infrastructures,” says Dr. Michael Meskes, CEO of credativ. “In order to do that, businesses need to trust the software. Here is where the OpenChain project’s easily adoptable guidelines come in. Fostering trust and expanding on the positive impact of open source in business, we hope that many more companies will be able to shift to a progressive infrastructure and a more wide spread adoption of open source.”

“credativ has a long pedigree in the open source world both as an innovator and as a community builder,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their early adoption of the OpenChain industry standard for compliance underlined this, and their announcement today of conformance with the latest version of our standard – functionally identical to our forthcoming ISO standard – solidifies their position of excellence in open source governance. I am looking forward to continued collaboration in the months and years ahead.”

About credativ

The credativ Group is an independent consulting and services company with primary locations in Germany, the United States, and India.
Since 1999, credativ has focused entirely on the planning and implementation of professional business solutions using Open Source software. Since May 2006, credativ operates the Open Source Support Center (OSSC), offering professional 24×7 enterprise support for numerous Open Source projects. For more information, visit http://www.credativ.com

About the OpenChain Project

The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the software supply chain.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. 

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The OpenChain Project held a mini-summit adjacent to Open Source Summit North America. Here is the recording of our event and a copy of the main slides presented.

The Recording

The Slides

OpenChain @ OSS North America Virtual Event – OpenChain Mini-Summit from Shane Coughlan

On the 1st of July at 4:05pm Central Time Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager will deliver a talk entitled ‘Open Source in ISO: Building the First LF Standard in Fourteen Years and What It Means for You.’

Open Source in ISO Building the First LF Standard in Fourteen Years and What It Means for You from Shane Coughlan

This talk will explore the process of building and deploying the first Linux Foundation ISO standard in fourteen years, highlighting both what has changed since we deployed Linux Standard Base, and why formal standardization is a topic that will increasingly be on your radar. The discussion will be primarily focused on OpenChain, the industry standard for open source compliance, and how collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation allowed a transformation from de facto into formal standard in a timescale that suits open source development. The lessons learned are applicable to any projects building out specifications or code that seek worldwide, sustainable adoption across multiple industries, and the presentation will include an explanation of how Linux Foundation and Joint Development Foundation are ready to support that process today.

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• https://sched.co/c3Y1

Tan Zhongyi (Jerry Tan) delivered a talk entitled ‘Building a Secure, Efficient, Compliance OSS Supplychain at Scale,’ covering how to address issues like supporting 10,000+ engineers to fix issues across 100,000 repos. It explored how the OpenChain Project provides a great framework for addressing this challenge head-on and how precisely it has informed OSPO work in Baidu.

• https://ossna2020.sched.com/event/c3U3/building-a-secure-efficient-compliance-oss-supplychain-at-scale-tan-zhongyi-jerry-tan-baidu

The OpenChain Work Group is being launched in the UK with its first meeting taking place virtually on 23 July from 14:00 – 17:00 BST.

Curated by OpenChain partners Orcro Limited with the support of world-leading semiconductor IP company Arm and in collaboration with the Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project, the purpose of the group is to establish the programme for OpenChain adoption, education and roll-out in the UK, in readiness for OpenChain’s imminent release as an official ISO standard later this year.

The inaugural UK meeting, which follows the path of successful OpenChain work groups established in China, Japan, Germany, Korea, India and Taiwan, will feature an introduction from Shane Coughlan who leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. Andrew Katz (Orcro) and Sami Atabani (Arm) will share their experiences of OpenChain implementation in the real world.

Session Content

• Welcome & Introduction
• OpenChain Project and OpenChain as an ISO standard – Shane Coughlan
• OpenChain, an introduction: reducing risk and friction in the supply chain – Andrew Katz(Orcro)
• The path to open source licence compliance – Sami Atabani (Arm)
• How to sell OpenChain to the board
• The OpenChain UK Work Group: next steps, terms of reference.

The meeting is free of charge, and is open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo.

Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner of Moorcrofts, CEO of Orcro Limited and Chair of the OpenChain UK Work Group, said:

“With a stellar roster of international businesses adopting the OpenChain framework for Open Source compliance and seeing the benefits of adopting best-practice – helping business teams work together towards a common goal, making Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) more accessible to developers and reducing overall compliance effort, saving time, legal and engineering resources,  it makes sense to unify and freely share this work, and help to embed it into the UK’s software development culture.

By establishing the OpenChain UK Work Group, we believe it will help developers’ and organisations’ journey through open source compliance  by providing a practical and accessible platform for anyone in the UK to quickly sync, share information and save time across all aspects of open source compliance.”

The OpenChain UK Work Group is open to all but will be of particular interest to developers, engineers and compliance experts working with open source.  It will kick-off with the meeting in July and the proposal is to have subsequent meetings bi-monthly.

Book Now

To reserve your place on the virtual meeting, on 23 July from 14:00 – 16:00 BST, please complete the online booking form.

Contact

For more information regarding the OpenChain UK Work Group, contact Andrew Katz.

On June 3rd Swedsoft’s Industrial Open Source Network held a webinar on Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project, a project that defines the key requirements of a quality Open Source Compliance Program.

During the webinar Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project, held an introduction on OpenChain followed by Jonas Öberg from Scania who talked about how OpenChain shaped Scania’s Open Source Program. Carl-Eric Mols, Addalot held a presentation about experiences from Sony Mobile.

Learn More About This Event

• https://www.swedsoft.se/en/2020/06/25/videos-webinars-industrial-open-source-network/

The second meeting of the OpenChain Germany Work Group took place on the 26th of June. You can catch up with our discussion and the slides used during the event below. Everything is in English this time.

OpenChain Germany Work Group Meeting # 2 from Shane Coughlan

Our next meeting of the OpenChain Germany Work Group will be held in early September. Watch this space.